Memory

Being haunted by the memory from the Vietnam war for 50 years, Harry Tabak was determined to return to where the battle began.

A film documenting the life of the martyr Majed Abu Sharar, who was assassinated in Rome in 1981. The film discusses his childhood, upbringing, and his work leading up to joining the Palestinian Revolution and leading its Unified Media Office. The film contains interviews with Majed Abu Sharar, and testimonies of his friends and commrades.

a film by Khavn

‘Freeing the Memory’ is the second of three significant performances enacted in 1976 in which Marina Abramović attempted to achieve a mental cleaning through the exhaustion of the three main faculties of expression, voice, language and body. In this piece, Abramović said every individual word she could recall until she could no longer continue without repetition. The mental strain of this act, which lasted ninety minutes, allowed the artist to exhaust her consciousness into a state of complete blankness.

A grieving woman moves through the fragments of her memories regarding past relationships, self-love and identity in order to explore her loneliness.

An experimental journey between memories, time, and childhood. A short self-portrait about things we don't remember. A series of vague and blurry images from the past. How can one remember?

In a world where memories are currency, the past can be bought and sold. A memory dealer, trades in the most intimate of exchanges. But when a melody from yesterday beckons and a stranger's request stirs forgotten chords, they must decide how much of their past they are willing to part with.

Created from super 8 footage that was shot in the 1970s of the family dogs and the trains that my father worked on, this film explores the decay of memory and image. The super 8 film grew fungus while stored in a basement. It was then optically printed up to 16mm and slowed down so that the snowflake shaped fungus could be studied. Narration presents fragmented stories of childhood memories. This film was created as a source film, which was later physically cut up and reprinted with a flashlight to destroy the image and sound for the subsequent film «Mechanical/Animal Memory» which is owned by the NFB.

Language of Memory is a hand-processed, optically printed film composed of rayographs of my grandmother’s still negatives from the early 1900s, strips of her old lace casting abstract patterns on high contrast film, and the overlapping gestures of sewing and splicing film, related techniques historically attributed to women. It is both homage to my grandmother’s creative influence and a deconstruction of memory through fragmentation and the accretion of associations surfacing from the tactile processes of the film’s making.

After a devastating breakup, Tara is having a hard time moving on. In order to forget her ex, Jack, she decides to undergo a procedure where she will forget him forever.

A documentary about a woman who paints Garfield for a living dismantles when the filmmaker becomes mystified with the color orange.

Grappling with the loss of her beloved, a programmer begins employment at a tech company specializing in high-end, artificial companions.

In the court of the Memory Guardians, a trial ensues about what to do with the statue of the Kneeling Woman, following her defacement in Zehlendorf and relocation to the Zitadelle Museum in Spandau. While one counsel advocates that the statue be publicly displayed in the Zitadelle Spandau Museum to caution against “left-wing extremism”, another argues that she should be kept in the more private Schaudepot indefinitely to educate about difficult history. Yet another argues for her to be destroyed, given the racist beliefs of her creator, the violence against her and the messiness of contextualising all this Black pain for a public.

Desperate to escape the nightmarish visions of a terrible past deed, Stanley stumbles upon the Memory Emporium to deal with his crippling guilt.

After a fifteen-year exile, Thomas come back home to bury his father, a Republican fighter thrown in jail by Franco's regime who died without ever regaining his freedom.

Somewhere on the coast, away from the village, a team of road workers lives and works - several families. Their work is hard and meaningless - the road they are constantly repairing leads nowhere and is not needed by anyone. The monotony of this life is broken by a couple who have settled next to each other in a tent, traveling by car. These are people of a different social stratum, a different culture. Their relationship, lifestyle attract the hero of the film - twelve-year-old Yurka. The boy gets closer to the visitors. This leads to a serious conflict with parents and makes them think about their lives.

An incident occurred where a member of the Sannokai who sparked a dispute at the gambling house was shot dead by a member of the Umeyama group dividing the place. This is the beginning of the "Osaka War" that shook the world of Japanese gangsters.

A depiction of everyday life at the House of Sharing, and document of the testimonies of women who were taken as "comfort women" by the Japanese Army during the war. The second part is about Kang Deok-yeong, who depicted her experiences during the war through painting.

A three part story of the North African immigration to France.

A grandfather retells his fondest memories to his grandchildren on the night before christmas eve.